The function of the parathyroid glands is to secrete parathyroid hormone, which causes the release of the calcium present in bone to extracellular fluid (ECF). The ECF is the fluid found outside cells in all body tissues. PTH does this by activating the production of osteoblasts, special cells of the body involved in the production of bone and slowing down osteoclasts, other specialized cells involved in the removal of bone.
The parathyroid hormone stimulates the absorption of calcium from the bone.
The parathyroid hormone. Also called as parathormone. This hormone is secreted by parathyroid glands.
parathyroid hormone (abbreviated PTH)
the parathyroid hormone parathormone
parathyroid hormone
If you are looking for the one hormone that does this, then the answer is parathyroid hormone (PTH), produced in the parathyroid glands.A more technical description is given below:Three hormones act in the body to increase blood calcium levels to normal. These hormones are 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol, parathyroid hormone (PTH), and calcitonin that originate respectively from the liver and kidneys, parathyroid glands, and thyroid glands. The first, 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol (active vitamin D3), serves to increase calcium absorption from the intestine. The second, PTH, dissolves bone into the blood. The third, calcitonin, prevents the bone-derived calcium from being resorbed ("reabsorbed") into the bone from which it came via PTH. To summarize, these three hormones act in concert to raise calcium levels via external and internal routes.References: Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 23eKim E. Barrett, et. al. Chapter 23: Hormonal Control of Calcium & Phosphate Metabolism & the Physiology of Bone
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The parathyroid hormone. Also called as parathormone. This hormone is secreted by parathyroid glands.
parathyroid gland
Parathyroid hormone is a hormone secreted by the Parathyroid glands. It increases the concentration of calcium in the blood. It effects bone, kidney and intestine tissue.
No, parathyroid hormone is produced by the four parathyroid glands which are located on the posterior aspect of the thyroid gland.